Fort Defiance State Park

“There is a generation of young Native people who are realizing that it’s time to step up . . .”

… And you want to be respectful and you want to ask the elders for that permission, and if they don’t give it, we’re doing it anyway because it’s necessary. My own self is sustained by seeing other young people in Indian Country achieving victory or at least starting a new path towards change in their communities. You feel like you’re part of something that’s going to change not only the face of Indian Country and of our Tribes, but the face of America. You do it in a way that no one’s going to see coming. I think that’s really neat. So, right on!”

~Dr. Desi Small Rodriguez, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Yankton, and Wahpeton nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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